Home-made Malai Kulfi - Indian Ice Cream

Ingredients :

Milk - 1 litre Sweet Bread - 2 slices (finely chopped, edges removed) Sugar - 3/4 cup Gelatine - 2 tsp (dissolved in 1/4 cup of water) Almonds - 3 nos (Blanched in hot water for 10mins, skinned,finely chopped) Cashewnuts - 3 nos (finely chopped) Pistachios - 5 nos (finely chopped) Cardamom Seeds Powder - 3 nos Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp (optional) To Grind into Paste : Almonds - 10 nos (Blanched in hot water for 10mins, skinned) Cashewnuts - 10 nos Milk - 1/4 cup

Method :

Heat Milk in a wide and heavy Kadai, bring to boil and stir constantly until reduce into half of the quantity. Add Sugar and stir until dissolve. Add Bread pieces and Vanilla Essence, cook for 3mins in medium flame, stirring continuously and remove from flame.

In a meantime grind mentioned ingredients into fine paste. Add ground paste into Milk-Bread mixture and mix well. Then add dissolved Gelatine and mix well again. Finally add Cardamom Powder, Chopped Almonds, Cashew-nuts and Pistachios. Let it cool and pour the mixture into the Kulfi-molds or bowls, freeze atleast 6hours or over night. To serve, remove the Kulfi from the molds by running the sharp knife around the edges of the Kulfi and slip into serving plate.